Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-15
The PrOhiblhOniStS Don't Want Prohibition thai
PrOhibIS-A Lively Fight In the Senate
Over the MsaSars-NO Vote Reached
The Joint Assembly.
Special Tsiegraa to ne Register.

stating that the constitution permitted the
Legislature to pass laws to prohibit the sale
of liquors, but does not provide for the
amendment proposed by the Senator from
Ohio county, that the Legislature may sly
it shall not be sold, but has no right to say
4 man shall not drink whisky.
Mr.. Scott said that in offering the
amendment he offered it in good faith,
that he was trying to assist his prohibition
friends in getting up
\ GOOD PROHIBITORY LAW.
That if prohibition was desired he wanted
to give il to them good and strong The
very minute a man who knows his appetite
To be ungovernable IN the use of liquors
takes drink OF whisky he takes the first
step towards the commission of a crime,
therefore if the gentlemen are sincere in
this movement let them prohibit the use
rs well aS the sale Of this article.
Mr.. Carr asked Mr.. Scott if he would
vote for the hill if his amendment was
ADOPTED, hut Mr.. Scott declined to state
what course he would take on the final
vote.
\ vote was then taken on the amend
ment proposed by Mr.. Scott and it was de
feated by 4 vote of 81 to ).
MIR. Scott then proposed an amendment
providing that before the bill should take
effect in any county it should be submit
ted by the County Court to a vote OF the
people for ratification OF rejection.
In speaking for this amendment Mr.
Scott alluded to the States wherein cOnStI-
tntional amendments existed prohibiting
the sale OF liquors, and demonstrated by
facts and statistics that the effect OF these
constitutional amendments III those States
WAS tO
GIVE THE DRUGGISTS A MONOPOLY
of the liquOr business whereby they are
amaSsing colossal fortunes, while rum
drinking and drunkenness exist to us great
an extent rs when the sale OF liquor was
permitted by license.
If YOU pass this BILL" he said. ''yOu
will cut of from the City OF Wheeling
revenue exceeeing So, 900 and the
drug stores will do the
whisky business aud we will
have lust rs much drunkeneSS and ~ much
whisky consumed while our city Is depriv-
eel of this great revenue by which We are
steadily improving our streets and alleys
and identifying the city generally, but at
the same time the State will be deprived
of m immense revenue which will neces-
Sarily have to he supplied by direct taxa
ton upon the property of the State"
Mr.. Scott exhibited 4 box Of
RUBRER GRAPES FILLED WITH LIQUOR
As showing the manner in which the gro
GERS in prohibition States manage to sup
plv their customers with intoxicating
liquors without paying to the State one
cent of revenue for the privilege. Mr..
Scott concluded by saying, that it seemed
To I've the aim of Senators, and especially
those from the interior of the State to drive
the manufacturers and the money interested
in manuiactOry out Oft State; that the
ONLY time they seemed to want anything
to do with or had any use for the upper
Panhandle was when they demanded and
collected about One-tifth OF the entire tax
paid by the State, and ut other times they
insist that we shall shut our eyes and take
what medicine they feel like administer
inn, and if we don't submit willingly they
attempt TO force il down our thrOatS.
\ GREAT INJUSTICE.
"I tell YOU, Sirs," he continued, ''yOu
are forcing a great injustice upon our peO-
ME. and stand here rs their humble rep
rrSentatiyc to resent Il. Ii has been said
that if the manufacturers don't like it let
them leave the State. | warn yOu now
that the time might come when these very
same manulacturers-the men who are
so largely contributing to the wealth
and good and prosperity of the
State will take your advice and leave the
State. and if that event should happen
YOU people of the interior will lind ont
what taxation is when you are compelled
to contribute aud make up for the loss you
have brought upon yourselves by these I'M
lust measures.
Mr.. McCreery accused Mr.. Scott Of firing
oil the same old anti-prOhibitlon speech
whenever an opportunity offered.
Mr.. ONley thought it unfair on the part
Of Mr.. McCreery to make this accusation
when he tMcCreeryl had made his same
speech time and again throughout the
whole session.
DON'T WANT THE TAXES.
Mr.. Dawson said it made no difference
To him if it did take away the revenue de-
rived from this source, that he would never
put any money against the souls OF ms
child or the children of the State; that no
yood has ever been produced by the sale
of liquor in the State, and he was Tor
for crushing it out. The amendment was
voted upon and lost.
Mr.. FlournOy then offered an amend
mGnt providing that the law should not "a
into effect until January, lSSS, which was
adopted.
MIR. Carr changed his vote with view
/ of moving a reconsideration in the morning.
Mr.. Gettinger offered a substitute for the
whole bill, providing that license should
not be granted except by the petition OF
certain number of citizens prescribing
PENALTIES for violations and fixing the rate
of license. The bill and substitute were
made the special order for tomorrow
morning, when the fight will doubtless be
renewed,
THE JOINT ASSEMBLY.
The Joint vote to-day resulted Camden
36, Maxwell 81, Okey Johnson II, Barbee l,
Newman 1.
The only thing of interest that occurred
in the Joint Assembly to-day was tne
humorous speech of TOler, the GreenbacS
labor delegate of this county, in placing
the name Of Judge Maxwell in nomination
for U. s. Senator. He said: II believe
that this Joint Assembly, after duly con
sidering his past history, will pronounce
him worthy of this honor. Not long sinc'
he was pronounced worthy of leading th'
laboring classes of the State, which /
about nine-tenths OF the State
He was our candidate loI
Chief Justice Of the State. He has heel
considered worthy to represent the distric'
in which he resides and he is . memOel
to-day of this joint assembly. He IS
man whom the lahOFing men known rs tht
i Iy.;,hts Of Iabor a little assembly thal